People (Web Usability)

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Spool, Jared: Web Graphic Design Is Not What You Think, A Usability Perspective Spool, Jared: Web Graphic Design Is Not What You Think, A Usability Perspective: "The number one activity on the Web is information retrieval." In part of his tutorial, Spool explained his findings on graphic design and users' success. (People) http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=2894/nam1012433861/ Rosenfeld, Lou: Yahoo! is Dead. Long Live Yahoo! Rosenfeld, Lou: Yahoo! is Dead. Long Live Yahoo!: Discussion on the inevitable collapse of Yahoo directory due to its size and complexity. He Predicts mini-yahoo sites within corporate intranets. (People) http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=3011/nam1012433819/ Various: WebWord Interviews with the Experts Various: WebWord Interviews with the Experts: Site includes usability articles written by John S. Rhodes. This page is a good starting point. (People) http://webword.com/interviews/index.html Spool, Jared: Hard Evidence from Research Spool, Jared: Hard Evidence from Research: Spool uncovers the lessons his research has taught him about how best to design a site so that users don't end up thwarted (People) http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=2894/nam1012433859/ Krug, Steve: Advanced Common Sense Krug, Steve: Advanced Common Sense: Steve Krug, author of Don't Make Me Think! A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, provides consulting services including expert reviews of existing sites and new designs, usability workshops, and usability testing. (People) http://www.sensible.com/ Tognazzini, Bruce: First Principles Tognazzini, Bruce: First Principles: Bruce Tognazzini discusses basic prinicples of usability for both traditional applications and web services. (People) http://www.asktog.com/basics/firstPrinciples.html Rosenfeld, Lou: Is Less Really More? Rosenfeld, Lou: Is Less Really More?: When it comes to the usability factor of tables of contents, is less really more? (People) http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=2890/nam1012433856/ Nielsen, Jakob: Web design vs. GUI design Nielsen, Jakob: Web design vs. GUI design: Designing for the Web is different from traditional user interface design. Fundamentally, the designer gives up a lot of control to the user - get used to it: WYSIWYG is dead (People) http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9705a.html Nielsen, Jakob: Papers and Essays Nielsen, Jakob: Papers and Essays: Online papers by Jakob Nielsen. (People) http://www.useit.com/papers/ Schaffer, Eric: How to Develop an Effective GUI Standard -- PDF file Schaffer, Eric: How to Develop an Effective GUI Standard -- PDF file: From the consultants of Human Factors International (www.humanfactors.com). Requires Acrobat Reader. (People) http://www.humanfactors.com/downloads/guistandards.pdf Nielsen, Jakob: Feedback From Users of an Archive Nielsen, Jakob: Feedback From Users of an Archive: How to collect usability data from site users, using a historical archive as the case study. Keep surveys simple, collect data from real-world usage, and get feedback from friends of the site. (People) http://www.useit.com/alertbox/990110.html Nielsen, Jakob: Frames Suck Most of the Time Nielsen, Jakob: Frames Suck Most of the Time: Why frames are usually a very bad idea. (People) http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9612.html Nielsen, Jakob: Print design vs. Web design Nielsen, Jakob: Print design vs. Web design: Dr. Jakob Nielsen highlights key differences between designing for print and designing for the web. (People) http://www.useit.com/alertbox/990124.html Nielsen, Jakob: Multimedia Guidelines Nielsen, Jakob: Multimedia Guidelines: A broad set of guidelines for multimedia on the web. (People) http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9512.html Veen, Jeffrey: Homepage Veen, Jeffrey: Homepage: Jeffrey Veen is the author of "The Art & Science of Web Design". His home page features details of the book and other links. (People) http://www.veen.com/jeff/ Norman, Don: Human Centred Design Norman, Don: Human Centred Design: Don Norman discusses the approach to usability when building his own website. This includes links to related content by Jakob Nielsen (People) http://www.jnd.org/dn.mss/hcd_website_design.html Nielsen, Jakob: Guerrilla HCI Nielsen, Jakob: Guerrilla HCI: Guerrilla HCI: Using Discount Usability Engineering to Penetrate the Intimidation Barrier (People) http://www.useit.com/papers/guerrilla_hci.html Szuc, Daniel: Usability in Hong Kong Szuc, Daniel: Usability in Hong Kong: Interview detailing the approach to web usability in Hong Kong. (People) http://webword.com/interviews/szuc.html Morville, Peter: Virtual Documents: The Challenges of Chunking Morville, Peter: Virtual Documents: The Challenges of Chunking: Advice for determining a level of granularity in breaking up documents for online viewing. (People) http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=2604/nam1012432737/ Schroeder, Will: Testing Web Sites with Eye-Tracking Schroeder, Will: Testing Web Sites with Eye-Tracking: Describes an experiment carried out to monitor the eye movements of visitors to a prototype web site. (People) http://world.std.com/~uieweb/eyetrack1.htm Nielsen, Jakob: Site Map Usability Nielsen, Jakob: Site Map Usability: Most site maps fail to convey multiple levels of the site's information architecture. In usability tests, users often overlook site maps or can't find them. Complexity is also a problem: a map should be a map, not a navigational challenge of its own. (People) http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20020106.html Schaffer, Eric: How to Develop a Corporate Intranet Standard -- PDF File Schaffer, Eric: How to Develop a Corporate Intranet Standard -- PDF File: From the consultants of Human Factors International (www.humanfactors.com). Requires Acrobat Reader. (People) http://www.humanfactors.com/downloads/webstandards.pdf Jef Raskin Jef Raskin: A site by and about Jef Raskin, interactive systems design expert. (People) http://humane.sourceforge.net/ Morville, Peter: Building a Synonymous Search Index Morville, Peter: Building a Synonymous Search Index: Help users find the documents they're looking for by incorporating a 'thesaurus-like' hierarchy for your site. (People) http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=2879/nam1012433844/ Rosenfeld, Louis: Information Architecture Revealed Rosenfeld, Louis: Information Architecture Revealed: Interview with Louis Rosenfeld. (People) http://webword.com/interviews/rosenfeld.html